Digital Campus Podcast - Episode 72 – May the Swartz Be With You
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2011-08-03T15:47:55Z
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Center for History and New Media
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Lisa Spiro and Jeff McClurken join Amanda, Mills, and Tom for a high summer episode of Digital Campus. (Dan Cohen did not join us this time, choosing instead to remain incommunicado in an undisclosed location while he writes some book or something.) There is no avoiding the story of Aaron Swartz, the 24-year-old Harvard researcher arrested for hacking MIT's JSTOR subscription, which raised for our panel, among other concerns, ongoing questions about open access and the viability for libraries of "big deal," multiple-journal subscription packages. We also mourn (or celebrate) the demise of the big box bookseller Borders, share thoughts about the next generation of operating systems (including Mac OS 10.7 "Lion" and Windows 8), and hold our collective breath as we await major cuts to humanities funding from Congress.
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Originally published by the Center for History and New Media through the Digital Campus podcast (http://digitalcampus.tv). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/).